How To Install bootmail on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bootmail
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is bootmail
bootmail is:
bootmail is a handy utility that will automatically send an email to a configurable list of email addresses each time the system boots. This is perhaps useful for unattended servers that should not reboot often. It appends a configurable list of log files to the email body.
If you install the suggested packages, it will also cryptographically sign the email messages.
There are three methods to install bootmail
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install bootmail Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bootmail
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bootmail
Install bootmail Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bootmail
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bootmail
Install bootmail Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install bootmail
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bootmail
How To Uninstall bootmail on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the bootmail
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bootmail
Uninstall bootmail And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bootmail
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bootmail
Remove bootmail Configurations and Data
To remove bootmail
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bootmail
Remove bootmail configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bootmail
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bootmail
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bootmail
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.